At $25,185 per pupil, Happy Camp Union Elementary ranks #168 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Happy Camp Union Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 108 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Siskiyou County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,185 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 188 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 23.4% local, 47.4% state, and 29.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 63.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 34.2% White, 7.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Happy Camp Union Elementary, enrolling 79 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 7.5% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (107 to 115 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.3 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,026,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49% went to instruction, 35.4% to support services, and 7.1% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Happy Camp Union Elementary accounts for 73.1% of all Happy Camp Union Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Happy Camp Union Elementary a distant remainder — means Happy Camp Union Elementary-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Happy Camp Union Elementary reports 57.9% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Happy Camp Union Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 63.3% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.